This year, 2017, is the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love. In January of 1967, a "Be-In" took place in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. "If you're going to San Francisco,... be sure to wear some flowers in your hair... If you're going to San Francisco,.....

I was once in the Eye of a Hurricane -- much excitement. By the spring of 1964, I had spent two years at the University of Minnesota, majoring in mathematics, vacillating between becoming an architect or a mining engineer, trying to figure out what to do with the rest of my life...

New Madrid, Mo., is on the west bank of the Mississippi River, about a hundred miles upstream from Memphis, across the river from the Kentucky and Tennessee state lines, just above the Missouri boot heel. The population in 2010 was approximately 3,200...

Bob Brewer was born and raised in western Arkansas. As a youngster, his great-uncle introduced him to a mystery that included wilderness paths, hidden symbols, carvings on trees and rocks, and the topography of certain areas. The old man was the keeper of some sort of secret knowledge that he kept to himself...

At age 30, I moved to southern California. After 11 years of excitement and turmoil, I escaped Hotel California and embarked on a new life. During my journey through La La Land, I encountered many famous celebrities along the way. "I've always been famous, it's just no one knew it yet." Lady Gaga...

When George Washington became President in 1789, life expectancy at birth for Americans was 34.5 years for males and 36.5 years for females. In 1801, when Thomas Jefferson became president, 20 percent of the people in the U.S. were slaves. Globally, there are some 1,800 thunderstorms in progress at any given moment and lightning strikes the planet 100 times every second. Lightning kills more people in the United States (400 per year) than any other natural disaster...

The most widely accepted theory of how the moon was formed is that a young planet collided with Earth more than four billion years ago, creating scattered debris that came together to form the moon. However, there are numerous extraordinary anomalies to indicate that the moon is actually hollow and possibly artificial...

Match the "real" birth name with their "famous" name. 1) Norma Jeane Mortenson A) Marilyn Monroe B) Eleanor Rigby C) Roseanne Barr D) Meryl Streep E) Sherrie Lea Laird >>>>> 2) Robert Allen Zimmerman A) Alan Thicke...

Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321) was an Italian poet. His epic poem, the DIVINE COMEDY, begins in a dark forest, which leads into the INFERNO (hell), followed by heaven and purgatory. Dante's Inferno has nine circles. 1) Limbo -- for those who were not baptized or do not believe in Christianity -- clear skies, green fields, pleasant villas...

"Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid." George Carlin "Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth." Erma Bombeck "I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house." Zsa Zsa Gabor...

String theory is an alternate theory of existence in our reality whereby tiny strings of small subatomic particles manifest different substances based on differing vibrations. They can manifest as matter or force. For example, magnetic attraction and gravity are not seen yet they are an interaction of strings because they exist at a subatomic level...

In 1921, a Swiss-Austrian teacher, Paul Amadeus Dienach, fell into a comatose state that lasted for one year. While in a coma, totally oblivious of the world around him, his mind (consciousness) travelled into the future by entering the body and mind of a man who was living in the year 3906 A.D...

The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America analyzed 100 cities to determine the worst and best places to live ranked based on spring allergy concerns. Worst for Spring Allergies: Best for Spring Allergies: _ Quote for the Day -- "I'm allergic to rocks hitting me in the face." Mike Rowe...

LIFE IN THE LAND OF ARK A game warden in Fulton County recently confronted a fisherman with a bucket full of fish and asked the man if he had a fishing license. "No, sir," replied the fisherman. "These are my pet fish. Every Tuesday I take them down to the lake and let them swim around some. Then I whistle and they jump back into the bucket and I take them back home."...

Approximately 10 - 12% of the people on Earth are left-handed and some 30 million of them live in the United States. The right half of the brain controls the left half of the body. Thus, left-handers are wired into the artistic half of the brain, which makes them imaginative, creative, ambiguous, exasperating, stubborn, emotional, obsessive and original...

Over two thousand years ago, the Imperial Roman Empire attempted to conquer the world. They built the first long-distant roads in Europe (and England) for their army to access the new lands. These roads have been used ever since. The standard Roman war chariots were initially created just wide enough to accommodate the rear ends of two war horses. These Roman chariots formed the initial ruts in these newly-formed roads...

Dr. Barbara Brennan is a former NASA physicist. She received a B.S. degree in Physics in 1962 and an M.S. degree in Atmospheric Physics in 1964 from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She later embarked on the studies of the human energy field, which included:...

Shamanism is a way to connect with all of nature and beyond. A Shaman is a person who is able to access the Spirit World for purposes of healing and divination, a ceremonial and spiritual leader among indigenous cultures worldwide, often referred to as a Medicine Man or Woman in Native American culture...

An archetype is an original pattern of which all things of the same "type" are representations (copies). Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961), the famous Swiss psychiatrist who founded analytical psychology, utilized the concept of archetype in his theory of the human spirit. He believed that universal archetypes, an inherited mode of thought, evolved (resided) within the collective unconscious of the human race...

Bearing Arms in America The percentage of adults owning guns -- (from DATABANK USA, 2013) 1) Alaska -- 61.7% 2) Arkansas -- 57.9% 3) Idaho -- 56.9% 4) West Virginia -- 54.2% 5) Wyoming -- 53.8% 6) Montana -- 52.3% 7) New Mexico -- 49.9% 8) Alabama -- 48.9%...